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Microsoft Money Plus Premium

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Microsoft Money Plus Premium Win32 English US Only CD Mini Box Non-Rebate

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Product Details

Product Weight:	0.25 pounds
Package Length:	7.5 inches
Package Width:	5.4 inches
Package Height:	1.5 inches
Package Weight:	0.3 pounds
Average Customer Rating:	based on 14 reviews

System Requirements

Platform:	Windows XP / Windows XP Professional / Windows XP Home Edition
Media:	CD-ROM
Item Quantity:	1

Features

Make the most of your money
Optimize your financial feature
Maximize your investments
Get a desktop glance at the information you need most
Improve your investment strategy with help from the experts at MSN Money

Customer Reviews

Average Customer Review: 2.5

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51 of 54 found the following review helpful:

Good program if used carefully Dec 10, 2007 By David Arnstein
I have been using MS Money for several years now and it has been a good experience. The improvements from year to year are modest. There are still reasons to upgrade though. First, each version of Money is only good for two years of online services. These services include price quotes for stocks and mutual funds, banking services, and so forth. Second, if you upgrade only once in many years, then the program might have trouble performing the update for you. It has to convert your computer file of financial history to a new format (it changes every year).

I have started a discussion topic "How to enjoy Microsoft Money" that is visible on the product page. This topic explains how I have avoided serious problems using Money.

The most significant competitor to Money is Intuit Quicken. Both programs are good. Recent versions of Quicken became increasingly restrictive about exporting data from the program. That is what prompted me to switch to Money.

38 of 39 found the following review helpful:

Not Great - Not Bad Sep 30, 2007 By doner
I've really come to the conclusion that there is not much else whiz-bang you can add to Money and Microsoft has come to the same conclusion. The product really has not changed much since '02. The reason I bought this version? I had to, my 2 years were up from my '06 version. Microsoft stops you from downloading account updates after two years.
Pluses:
- good product, not as buggy as older new release versions
Minuses:
- previous reviewer correct, previous owners of Money are not allowed to use the credit reporting feature
- nothing really new. I've only noticed a new way to budget (and it is just OK)
- one of my accounts was valued at $30 million after converting, I looked at the details of the account and deleted the suspicious entry and re-entered it, that fixed it (repair did not work)
- have to purchase again in two years (I'm assuming), to continue to download account updates

I guess I wished I just purchased the deluxe version. . . Overall, doner just OK with MS Money

25 of 27 found the following review helpful:

Not worth upgrading Oct 01, 2007 By Rich
I have been using MS Money since 1994. I usually upgrade every 3 years to get the new features. I was forced to upgraded to Money Plus (2008) since the newer versions of Money only allow 2 years of online access.

I am a power user of Money, tracking 31 accounts with nearly all of them automatically updated via the online update feature. I use Money 3 times a week.

The upgrade looks exactly the same as Money 2006. Even after looking at the 'New' features that have been added in Money Plus, I find the changes to be very, very weak.

The one change I have noticed is the time to open my Money file has increased from <1 min in Money 2006 to over 4 minutes with Money Plus (2008). I am not sure why there is an issue with the new version. I have archived my data from 1994 to 2003 and have ran the repair utility, neither of which helped the performance.

If I was not required to upgrade because of the two year subscription limit, I would not see any need to upgrade to Money Plus. Let's hope MS puts out a more compelling product in future releases.

43 of 50 found the following review helpful:

IF YOU WANT QUOTES BUY MONEY NOT QUICKEN Sep 05, 2007 By Edsallstein
I recently switched to Money after about a year of problems with Intuit's quote server for Quicken. Intuit doesn't care to fix the problem and, for me, its the only reason I use Quicken. I have spent hours on the phone with Intuit, Intuit of India, and the Intuit's Office of the President; all to no avail. Intuit's quote server for the past 45 days has only been providing historical quotes unless you want twenty or less quotes. Intuit's tech support says I should just download 20 quotes at a time. Let's see, 200 stocks, 20 at a time. That would be 10 downloads plus manually selecting the ones I want, about 3 hours of work with Quicken or 3 seconds with Money.

8 of 8 found the following review helpful:

Minor changes/ hardly worth the trouble Dec 22, 2007 By In the Middle of the Road
I was a long time user of Quicken and Turbotax until about 5-6 years ago. Intuit decided to make registration and activation such a royal pain that it completely screwed up all of us legitimate users. I lost a hard drive suddenly and Intuit's approach meant that I could access my own taxes on my own software. The workaround and telephone calls were more trouble than doing things by hand.

If there were pirates, they were probably better off than us. It was not the first Customer-be-damned Intuit move. They eventually called and began apologizing to old customers. it was too late. I decided to switch to Turbotax and MS Money. The data is compatible, but it obviously takes a while to get used to the differences between the two (I'm including both the money and tax software).

Once you're used to it, Money is fine as is Taxcut. I inadvertently bought Turbotax last year and decided I didn't want to bother, so returned it and got Taxcut.

I'm only giving this two starts because, while it works well, the only reason I upgraded to this version was that I got sick of dealing with the Microsoft Reminder Screen every time I went to write a check. Yes, I know Microsoft, you've got a new version out and want to sell it.

True, MS doesn't support the older versions now and you can't get the data you do in the first two years. The truth is that I've switched most of my fiscal work elsewhere because I didn't care for the Money approach over those others. It's okay, but it's just updated bloatware that most of us wouldn'tneed.

I would have made more sense ot just offer a lower priced upgrade.

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